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William Forsythe has a thing about rules. He likes to break them — or bend them. Maybe reinvent them? The American choreographer, who performed with the Joffrey Ballet before serving as artistic director of Ballet Frankfurt and creating his own dance ensemble, the Forsythe Company, is as much a...read more

Helgi Tomasson, San Francisco Ballet’s artistic director and principal choreographer since 1985, has excelled less obviously as a dance-maker than he has as a dancer-maker. His legacy with San Francisco Ballet is secure for having m...

Sarah Crompton: “He is consequently the only choreographer who has ever been mentioned in the same sentence as the philosopher Michel Foucault, applying a similar critical intelligence to the nature of dance and its language.”

“Mr. Williams was dancing with the Martha Graham Dance Company when he was recruited by the choreographer Alvin Ailey as a last-minute replacement for an Ailey troupe member in 1963. He performed with the Alvin Ailey American Dance ...

William Forsythe has a thing about rules. He likes to break them — or bend them. Maybe reinvent them? The American choreographer, who performed with the Joffrey Ballet before serving as artistic director of Ballet Frankfurt and crea...